![]() Sure, it took George Bailey and Ebenezer Scrooge until the very end to get there, but they got there nonetheless. This is a Christmas movie, and in the end, the hero is always the one who is taken by the Christmas spirit. ![]() “Eddie is a freeloading buffoon who dumped all his problems on others!”įair enough. ![]() I can’t believe I didn’t notice this the 535 times I’ve watched this movie before, but the truth of the matter is:Ĭlark is NOT the hero of Christmas Vacation.Ĭousin Eddie is the hero of Christmas Vacation. We want a world in which we can make everyone around us happy. Of course, there’s the bad stuff too: Our thoughts often wander. We both love our family above everything else. I identify with him in so many ways: We both like singing in the car with our families even if they hate it. My new thought this year: NO YOU DIDN’T, CLARK! EDDIE DID IT!Ĭlark is my favorite character in any holiday movie, full stop. Clark is staring into the sky with a huge grin on his face, and whispers to himself…. This year’s new thought didn’t come until the very last second of the movie. The audio mixing, the quick timing beat, and Eddie just plowing on with his story is sheer perfection. Last year, I declared that the sneaky funniest moment of the whole movie was Eddie walking through the living room while talking to Clark, tinkering with the little wooden model and watching it crumble. We re-watch this movie several times in the holiday season and we always notice something new. When watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for the 536th time this year, I came away with a new thought: The character everyone loves to ridicule, is actually the best example of Christmas spirit.
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